Preprint: Do Not Quote From Narvaez, D. (in press). Embodied morality: Protectionism, engagement and imagination. New York, NY: Palgrave-Macmillan. Chapter 3: Measuring Triune Ethics Orientations

Although prior moral motivation research has focused on prototypic views of moral character—i.e., prosociality—in these studies we identify a broader set of ethical orientations, based on Triune Ethics Metatheory. These reflect different types of motivated cognition 1 that correspond to different neurobiological patterns of social response (see also chapter 4 for additional varieties). In this chapter, we report on studies where Triune Ethics Metatheory was used to develop and validate several measures of adult triune ethics dispositional orientations. The purposes of these studies were to create a measure of the three basic ethical orientations (protectionism, engagement, and imagination) derived from triune ethics meta-theory, validate the measure, and assess how ethical orientation might act as a mediator of relations among developmental foundations (dispositions and early experiences) and moral outcomes. In several studies, we examined their relation to personality and behaviour, reporting on three samples here. 2